Unable to fire jQuery change() event on selectlist from WatiN

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I have a select box

 <select id="myselectbox">
   <option value='a'>First option</option>
   <option value='b'>Second option</option>
 </select>

And jquery

 $('#myselectbox').change(function() {
    ...
 });

And a WatiN test

 SelectList list = Browser.SelectList(Find.ById("myselectbox"));
 list.Select("First option");

In IE, this changes the select box, but doesn't fire the jquery event handler. I am aware of the many issues surrounding the change() event handler in IE. So I have tried adding a number of things to the test to force the event to fire:

 list.Blur();
 list.Keypress('\r');
 list.Click();

I also tried to click outside the select box to remove the focus, hoping this would fire the event.

Any ideas?

watin jquery
6 Answers

Going off of Matt Ball's answer and the OP's additional steps, I added the following extension method to a test helper class.

using WatiN.Core;

namespace Some.Test.Project
{
    public static class WatiNExtensions
    {
        public static void ForceChange(this Element e)
        {
            e.DomContainer.Eval("$('#" + e.Id + "').change();");
        }
    }
}

Now, so far anyway, I've succeeded in doing:

SelectList list = Browser.SelectList(Find.ById("myselectbox"));
list.Select("First option");
list.ForceChange();

OK, it's a minor convenience at best, but I'm finding it useful. Anyway, upvotes from me for the OP and the answer!

I_Have_the_Hat_42960
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